Rava Cake | How to Make Sooji Atta Cake | Semolina Cake(Eggless)

Rava Cake(Eggless) recipe with step by step photos method - How many of you like the bakery style cakes?? Rava cake are typically Indian bakery style cake which are heavily flavored with simple ingredients. This cake has no egg, no butter, and no all-purpose flour.
It's a simple and easy recipe of eggless "sooji cake" which is super soft in texture, light and moist. I replaced butter with oil and all purpose flour with whole wheat flour. It has a rich flavor and texture. Serve this cake warm, with a cup of hot tea or coffee.
This yummy and healthy sooji atta cake recipe is prepared with semolina, curd, sugar, wheat flour and few other ingredients which is easily available in our kitchen/pantry. With just few ingredients, you will get your fresh home baked cake and it tastes awesome!

Everyone know India is in lock-down period, during that period my birthday is there, its on 30th march & I know that outside cake is not easily available at that moment. So for that I made this cake rava cake, why eggless because navaratre is also going on these days. Only rava is available in my pantry. I know I know all 3 situations happened with me during the time.
But no worries, my husband told me leave it not to bake anything, we'll see tomorrow if any cake shop is opened because he was not sure the taste of sooji cake 😜😃 I told him no no it's ok, I'll make that one too.
Earlier, I have tried rava cake with tutti frutti rava cake a long back, that will be with plain rava only...you can check it that also.

Once the cake is ready, cutting the cake, my husband ate 50% of the cake at that time only, I know its funny 😅😅but ya he was surprised by seeing the cake and the flavours too.Thanks god, I got some time to click all the photos. So all photos are on flash light,I was little depressed using the flash light. Let's go to the post.
Although cakes will be easily available in your nearby supermarkets or cake shops but the one’s you make yourself at home taste even sweeter. Be soft and gentle with them and they will be softer and more tasty !!!
You can keep it in a fridge for 5 days and before serve, just warm it in microwave for 10-20 seconds and enjoy!!

Let's start to make this easy and simple recipe of eggless rava cake with simple step-by-step process with photos.
Course: Cakes, Snacks
Cuisine: Indian
Prep Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 35-40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 6 to 8 people
Author: Jolly Makkar
Ingredients :
Dry ingredients
Fine rava/chiroti sooji/semolina - 1 & 1/4 cups
Whole wheat flour, spooned & leveled - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 & 1/2 tsp
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Wet ingredients
Oil - 1/3 cup (it should be flavorless)
Yogurt/Dahi - 1/2 cup
Milk - 3/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Other 
loaf tin
hand whisker
Choco-chip or chopped nuts - 2 tbsp
Preparation Method :
1. Use a parchment paper to line the base of the loaf tin. or grease an loaf tin with little oil and dust with flour to coat the pan.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C, position a lower rack in the middle of the oven.
3. In a bowl, sift whole wheat flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add salt, whisk the dry ingredients until well combined. Set aside.

4. In small bowl, add a teaspoon of wheat flour to coat the choco chip and Set aside.
5. In another big bowl, add yogurt, whisk it well to get rid of any lumps. Then add milk, oil, sugar, vanilla essence. Whisk well to incorporate all the ingredients.

6. Add the fine semolina to the liquid ingredients, mix well, cover it and set aside for 30 minutes.

7. After 30 minutes, the semolina will have absorbed the liquid, the batter will become thicker.

8. Now, add the flour mixture prepared in step 2 along with the coated choco-chips, fold in gently with a spatula, until no more flour pockets are visible. Do not over-mix the batter.

9. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking tin. Bake in the lower rack, for about 35 – 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Mine will be ready in 36 minutes, the time of baking is totally depend on your microwave.

10. Cool the cake on a rack in the tin for 15 minutes.

11.Then remove from the tin and cool on the rack completely. Cut into desired pieces and serve.

TIPS AND TRICKS
1.You may reduce the sugar to 3/4 cup, if you prefer a less sweet cake.
2.You may replace yogurt with 2 large eggs.
3.You can use any shapes of baking tin like round, loaf or square, baking time will vary.
4.If you have coarse variety of semolina, simply pulse it 4-5 times in the blender and use in this recipe.
5.You may substitute oil with melted butter or melted ghee.
I have adapted this semolina cake recipe from sujata roy blog and this recipe is a part of recipe challenge month for this april month.
Check out more awesome cake recipes for festivals and holidays season :

eggless coconut cake
eggless carrot cake
vegan jaggery cake
whole wheat eggless chocolate cake
orange chiffon cake
banana chocolate cake
eggless funfetti mug cake

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